 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...numbers, Life is bat an empty dream ! For the suol U dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad fii-ld of battle, In... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not as they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave...end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust rcturnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral inarches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...numbers, ' Life is but an empty dream, ' For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...numbers, \ Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. - Life is real ! — life is earnest ! — And...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! — life is earnest ! — And...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnpth,' y face, Though different, glows with beauty; at the...clouds shut it from mankind, They fall bare-bosomed, muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave...destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. 35 Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of... 
